At the auction for Nortel Networks’ wireless patents this week,
Google’s bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and
$2,614,972,128.

Math whizzes might recognize these numbers as Brun’s constant and
Meissel-Mertens constant, but it puzzled many of the people
involved in the auction, according to three people with direct
knowledge of the situation on Friday. […]